Hidrante, in collaboration with San Juan 721, is pleased to present La Trinchera's residency from May 15th to June 30th.

During their time at San Juan 721, La Trinchera will develop their new project, Ojo avizor, an innovative exploration of the body and performance within the context of public spaces in contemporary Puerto Rico. By focusing on the automobile as a driving force of the creative process and as a normative means of achieving control over the movement and displacement of bodies, La Trinchera proposes a recovery of the "parking lot" space that has subjugated and conditioned the Puerto Rican landscape. Ojo avizor, which consists of artistic interventions in different "parking lots" in Puerto Rico, seeks to explore and reclaim the right to the city, questioning the use and perception of the habitual landscape.

La Trinchera (est. 2015) is a contemporary dance collective composed of three Puerto Rican artists: Beatriz Irizarry, Cristina Lugo, and Marili Pizarro, who work from a performative autonomy that adapts to or conditions the space. Their beginnings in 2015 arose from collaboration and a relationship between dance friends, who had known each other since they were part of Hincapié, a dance collective directed by Petra Bravo. Their recent presentations include Con Vista al Mar, 2025 (RESAYOS EN LA NATURALEZA of the ArteYunque program, El Yunque), Antro Lux, 2024 (Victoria Espinosa Theater), Pataki 1921, 2023 (in collaboration with Ulrik López, Museum of Contemporary Art of Puerto Rico), Anoxia, 2022 (collaboration with Joaquín Octavio, MAC en el Barrio), and Nivel Freático, 2022 (Beta-Local).

This residency is made possible by support from the Puerto Rican Arts Initiative (PRAI), which is funded by the Mellon Foundation and the University of Texas at Austin.